Want to make 2019 the year your business really takes flight? Well, you don’t need a large budget to start making changes that will help your company realize unprecedented success. Indeed, there’s no time like now to take a good, hard look at the ways you’ve been doing things for the past year and make the effort to evolve.
Here are four ways that you can improve your business in 2019.
Over the last decades, trade shows have proven to be among the best platforms to generate brand awareness and make sales. However, several businesses have been doing it all wrong when they attend such shows with purely sales and awareness goals. Non-sales-related objectives can significantly have measurable results to your business as well without limiting the effectiveness of your program. Here are 7 reasons why you should become an exhibitor at a trade show. Please read on.
Internet has been a great equalize for many business owners, particularly the small businesses that do not have resources to reach customers globally. By creating a website you can sell your products and services to anyone regardless of which country he resides in. Many small business owners have taken advantage of this and grown their business successfully. The warehouse and logistics services offered by companies such as Amazon and UPS and payment processing offered by companies such as Paypal has enabled them to cover all the processes without having to spend much on the backend infrastructure.
Did you know that in the United States, a worker is injured on the job once every seven seconds? That adds up to 12,300 injuries each day, or a staggering 4,500,000 every year.
As a small business owner, you owe your employees a safe working environment. Not only will maintaining a safe workplace lower the odds that you will have to pay out workers compensation claims, but it’s just the right thing to do.
Benjamin Franklin said “failing to prepare is preparing to fail”. This could not be any truer than when starting a hospitality business. In the past decade, we have seen the industry continuously grow to become one of the more preferred industries for small business owners. It is continuously evolving on both the technological and customer front and the year 2019 promises continued growth on the hospitality front. Increased competition and fluid changes have meant that those getting into the hospitality business should be armed with a few basic essentials to ensure a great start to their venture into the hospitality arena. From recruiting employees with the right skills to getting your numbers rights, here are a few tips to get you going.
Buying a home requires a lot of planning and knowledge. It is important to find the right fit and stay within your means as well. My name is Jacques Poujade, managing partner at LendPlus, and I work with people of different financial situations, including many small business owners. No matter how much money a person has, small business owners can get themselves in trouble if they aren’t careful when buying a personal home. Here are four tips to keep in mind to have a positive experience.
Starting an online business is easier than ever. In less than an hour, you can create a website capable of selling your wares. It used to be that going into business for yourself required a lot of capital. This is no longer the case. Anyone who has a PayPal account and access to the internet can set up an e-commerce environment. That doesn’t mean that there’s no work involved. You have to figure out many things. For instance, what about shipping to the Bahamas? Or Europe? Or Africa? The internet is a global village. Some of your customers might be outside the U.S. Do you know how to reach them?
If you run your own business, the likeliness of you knowing about Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is quite high. Last year, the PPE Directive 89/686/EEC4 was replaced by the Regulation 2016/425 in a bid to improve health and safety at work.
However, a lot of managers will be trying to find out how this will impact them — especially if they operate both solely in the UK or within the European Union. Opposed to the former directive, the new regulation is a binding legislative act that must be applied in its entirety across the EU without requiring separate national legislation.
That’s a bold statement to make but one which is backed up by a lot of truth. Without Dan Holzmann, Juice Plus++ could never have been as successful, as it is now. Dan Holzmann was always searching for ways that would not only expand Juice Plus+’s global outreach but also maintain product quality.
The technological advancement of the 21st century provides a convenient way of life for most people. Almost everything can be done instantaneously, thanks to technological development that were developed for decades. All aspects of life in this century deals heavily with technology, and things that you wanted could be provided in an instant. Take eating out as an example – in the past, fast food restaurants only number in hundreds. However, as more people looked at fast service to be more convenient, the majority started to like fast food restaurants. It is a time-saving business model, and it started to explode in numbers as more people look into time as an important resource.
